I've been very busy doing life as most, and have not been on CEF much. I fly so little anymore (RC, CL, or FF), I really should sell everything airplane related item I own. BUT, That'll never happen.

So..... I saw an ebay notification on my iphone as I about to fall asleep a couple days ago. It was a reminder to bid on a Tee Dee .010. Well, as always, I would bid $75 and let the card fall where they will. But I noticed the bid was up in 9min., and I waited up for the SNIPE. And to my surprise, I won!!!!!!!!!

duke.johnson wrote:I've been very busy doing life as most, and have not been on CEF much. I fly so little anymore (RC, CL, or FF), I really should sell everything airplane related item I own. BUT, That'll never happen.

So..... I saw an ebay notification on my iphone as I about to fall asleep a couple days ago. It was a reminder to bid on a Tee Dee .010. Well, as always, I would bid $75 and let the card fall where they will. But I noticed the bid was up in 9min., and I waited up for the SNIPE. And to my surprise, I won!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations, it's a beautiful engine.The mix I use in the video I leave here is:20% Ricino25% NitroOther MethanolIt works very well without very reliable drawbacks !, I hope you serve.

Here another video without background music so you can better appreciate the performance of the Cox 010:

Still waiting for the traveling .010 engine as I have never actually seen touched one yet

Way back a few years, a guy gave me a very small cox engine... the size* made me think it was the probably the smallest practical running engine

Ron Cribbs schooled me it was really a .020... man I thought is was sure dinky

Since I have learned a lot at a fast rate and did actually hold one of Ron Valentine's micro Diesels a buddy had

* not real sure in my early years of modeling how I was not even aware of anything smaller than a .049 or for that matter bigger than a .35

Base PX systems over seas or the Sears catalog seemed to focus on the normal RTF toys

Off thought...I think a display of flying Ring Masters from nano .010 up to Fox .40 would be an interesting and fun project Yes Virginia...we could get crazy and add 10 more in steps up to Radial engine 1.20 100" WS monster

Fred!! Good to hear from you my friend. I have 25% sig, 35% sig, and 50% from a fellow free flighter. I'll probably start with 25% and see how it goes. I have ran a few contest with 50% in the 020 without burning up a head. But I don't know how the 010 will like it. I'm thinking I only have 2-3 head gaskets right now. I'll have to get more.

Our Holloman AFB BX carried a small amount of model stuff, but one afternoon on the way home I stopped there, and found a shopping cart full of model stuff, with a SALE sign on the cart. I picked through it and found only five engines, 3 Cox Babe Bees, and 2 Cox Pee Wees. I bought them all at a steal, and still have a new (on card) Pee Wee in my meager collection. The BB's were marked down to $1.75 each, and the PW's to $1.35 each! I know they had a couple of cards of each on the wall on my previous BX visit, but someone must have beat me to them.

I flew 1 of the BB's on a Baby Flight Streak, and kept 1 PW, but gave the rest of those engines away. Haven't found another bargain like that to this day!

Fred. I love to meet up again and would love an ice cold beer. I have not made it to the last two Grabbers. I've moved my daughter to college that weekend the last two years. I'll pm you to get caught up

Good to hear from you Duke ! Those .010 TDs are small no doubt , i got one and the parts to do all the repairs needed but haven't taken the time to do it (( a little scared that i will destroy something ) getting it freed up Yes the parachute contest was very cool stuff BUT , as Fred said pretty pricy

I did a lot of searching around and went back and forth a few times to look at the Hobby King para sail

What I surmise is the HK sail is a $17 repair part for a powered para glider and does not really function like a steerable ParaChute does

The initial hint you gave us for the RC guy is now dead but the products pages still come up as archive...I have not tried the contact us linkSoloman I can not waste time with; as there are a few RC groups threads in 2015 where folks paid the deposit for a 4 to 6 month wait and never did get the product

there is one in South Afrika and anther in Germany but neither have any prices

I may just get one of the ridiculously cheap HK chutes and make up a Rat Fink soldier for a static display in my shop

I've hooked up the paratroopers to many planes. Even to this day I still think it's cool. I use a piece of wire soldered to the pushrod so when I give it full up elevator it pushes the jumper off of the side of the fuse. I retain him with a paper clip like mechanism.

I still run TD .010s and .020s and always use Sig Champion 25 fuel with good results. I buy it in quart bottles and add an extra 1.5oz of Klotz castor oil to each one for good measure. This fuel mix is adequate for all of my Cox engines in all sizes and flavors. I'm not seeking max performance from my engines, just having a general good time horsing around without wearing them out excessively fast. My .010s start and run fine on that mix. Hope this helps.